Here in Sweden it's very unusual that parents kill their children, but there have been two cases recently that have recieved much media attention. The first was in January 2018, and the other in January 2019.
In the first case in 2018 the parents jointly decided to kill their two daughers and themselves. The girls, 11 and 14 years old, had been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome some years ago, and had spent the last year or so at home, and had a teacher coming to the home as they were too tired for ordinary school. The parents didn't see that there were anything that could help their daughters and decided to kill them and themselves. There were suicide notes and explanations from both parents.
In January this year a father killed his two boys, 5 and 7 years old, and then killed himself, after having posted a video on YouTube telling what he had done. In this case the parents were divorced and the father had been depressed for a while.
This article (in Swedish), Extremt ovanligt att föräldrar dödar sina barn , is about how rare it is that children are killed here, in the beginning of the 1990ies there were 10 cases a year where children had died of deadly violence, in the last years (2015 - 2018) there have been 4 cases a year. In 9 of 10 cases it's a parent who have killed the child, in about half of the cases it's the mother, and in half the father. One reason why it's unusual that children gets killed that's mentioned in the article is that there are adults outside the family around the child, from the children's health care nurses when they are babies, to teachers in preschool and school later on.
(I don't know if this is the right forum for this thread, but I hope this can show that there are other, more positive, statistics when it comes to the safety of children, even if every case when a child is killed is a tragedy.
In the first case in 2018 the parents jointly decided to kill their two daughers and themselves. The girls, 11 and 14 years old, had been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome some years ago, and had spent the last year or so at home, and had a teacher coming to the home as they were too tired for ordinary school. The parents didn't see that there were anything that could help their daughters and decided to kill them and themselves. There were suicide notes and explanations from both parents.
In January this year a father killed his two boys, 5 and 7 years old, and then killed himself, after having posted a video on YouTube telling what he had done. In this case the parents were divorced and the father had been depressed for a while.
This article (in Swedish), Extremt ovanligt att föräldrar dödar sina barn , is about how rare it is that children are killed here, in the beginning of the 1990ies there were 10 cases a year where children had died of deadly violence, in the last years (2015 - 2018) there have been 4 cases a year. In 9 of 10 cases it's a parent who have killed the child, in about half of the cases it's the mother, and in half the father. One reason why it's unusual that children gets killed that's mentioned in the article is that there are adults outside the family around the child, from the children's health care nurses when they are babies, to teachers in preschool and school later on.
(I don't know if this is the right forum for this thread, but I hope this can show that there are other, more positive, statistics when it comes to the safety of children, even if every case when a child is killed is a tragedy.
